School: Abbeylara
- Location:
- Abbeylara, Co. Longford
- Teacher: John O' Meara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 0613
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- (continued from previous page)long time. But when they were about half way from Dublin, two of the cattle got tired and would not go any further.Just then, a big lorry came on and he asked the driver to carry the cattle. The driver consented to carry the cattle in the lorry. Then the man carried the cattle in the lorry to Dublin. When the man reached Dublin the other two cattle that he had with him were very tired but he was not a bit tired himself.He had to travel a lot of places in Dublin before he could get his other two cattle as he did not know where the man in the lorry would leave them. So when he got them he sold them and he sold the other two as well. He got a good price for the four cattle. He set out for his home at about four o'clock in the evening. He walked the whole way home and he reached the house at about nine o'clock that night.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Reilly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Derragh, Co. Longford
